Sport and Fitness Hub

Introduction

The OpenLearn Sport and Fitness Hub is a collection of free resources – courses, articles, interactives and videos – that explore many themes within sport and fitness.

The Open University has offered formal learning in sport and fitness since 2008 and has also offered free learning through OpenLearn during this time. OpenLearn content has been developed to provide taster materials for potential new students, as a means of stimulating interest in sport and fitness and sharing the academic research and teaching interests of the academics who work on the sport and fitness qualification.

This hub was launched in October 2024 to support the Sport and Fitness Conference ‘Embedding Children’s Rights into Sport and Fitness’. It brings together existing content that is still relevant today and will be continually added to, reflecting new research and developments in sport and fitness.

Who is it for?

The hub is designed for anyone who has a passion for sport and an enquiring mind to find out more about it. For the curious, the content can provide a deeper understanding of sports performance and the many factors that influence success in sport and fitness. For existing sport and fitness students it acts as value added to their degree study; it supplements some of the subject areas they have studied and presents content around new areas. The materials can also act as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for people working in sport and fitness who need to find out more about specific areas of knowledge and skill development.